Bizarre things your children insist you do...

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Every morning, before he leaves the house, my son goes and hides in a box to become a "DS-in-a-box".

I have to turn an imaginary crank against the side of the box whilst singing a tinny version of "half a pound of tuppeny rice" getting faster and faster until he pops out, when I have to look shocked. He then gets his shoes on and we head out the door.

Does anyone else have any strange things their children insist on doing or insist that you do?

starfleet Love that, I might insist on it when I leave for work every morning.

Oh some of these are brilliant!

getdressed that is absolutely classic!

@ bupcakes vision of the future, but we have to get the new blood of MN from somewhere.

TobyLeWolef - I think that's lovely!

My dd (5) asks me to do a sort of 'round the garden' ritual (without words) on the soles of her feet (I think she got the idea from In The Night Garden when she was tiny). I don't know how she can bear it with wriggling because it must tickle.
It's not strange really but I love it and will be sad when she no longer wants or needs it

without wriggling

After bath-time in order for Dd to be transported from the bathroom into her bedroom she has to ride the Daddy horse, or whichever animal she decides DH has to pretend to be that evening.
Dh then has to crawl/bounce/slither/boinging,jumping across the landing with dd clinging onto him whilst he is making the appropriate animal sounds. This started when she was about 12months old, and is still going strong at 4.

When she is in bed and about to go to sleep I have to tell her how much I love her, she prefers it to be expressed in monetary terms, increasing in amounts as I leave the room, and finally shouted up from downstairs " I love you a million pounds!" she usually replies " and I love you forty pounds"

my dd (6)gets up with me each morning and waits at the top of the stairs so that she can hold my hand when we walk downstairs. I love it lol

wow your kids are weird

And yet I find this thread strangely reassuring

DD does an interpretive dance of the food we will be eating,

Her sausage and mash dance was particularly interesting.

It was all boingy and squat, then she would leap into the air eyes closed and arms tight to her side to represent the sausage.

Gammon and red cabbage tomorrow.

when DS (3)gets out the bath he needs to lie on the bathmatt and be covered in the towell while saying "night night". When he is ready, he then clambers into my lap and I have to wrap him tightly in the towell and sing "Rockaby Baby" while rocking him, I am allowed to then dry one body part before doing it again. Adds a good 10mins onto the end of bathtime!

After this I put sudocream on his nappy area and he puts it on his knees then each of his toes, counting them to "chekc they're all there"

When DS was around 2, he insisted on being wrapped in a white towel and being called my polar bear.

All cute and normal up to that point.

His insistance that I use his head to open and close his bedroom door on the way to bed, not so much.

DDs insist on a long list of words that rhyme with "sweet dreams"

so we say, "goodnight, sweetdreams"
DDs "custard creams", "Baked beans", submarines, tambarines, ect

Dd likes it when I put my nose in her eye, I have no idea why.

ds3 (age 3) also lies down on the bathmat every night to 'be an egg', covered by a towel. I have to be amazed to find the giant egg and he then hatches out of it as a baby monster/dinosaur. after watching me crawling round the bathroom muttering and scrubbing on several occasions trying to work out what was whiffing, he finally confessed that he was also doing a tiny dribble of wee while he was under there. not so 'aaah'.

I love the Star Wars one. Have told DH we must start it at once. Wonder how long before it gets old

On occasions when I drive and DH is a passenger, DD likes it if I play the driving off a bit when daddy opens the door game. If we forget to do it, she shouts at daddy to get out of the car

When I collect her from nursery and we walk to the car she has to say "bye train" (the boiler room or whatever it is has two small chimneys which I guess is what she is referring to), she then has to count the letters that make up the brand of the industrial size wheelie bin and then she has to select a leaf to bring home. This MUST all be done no matter how desperately her pregnant mother needs a wee.

Similar to yours sununu (but without the wee).DD (4) has to be a parcel when she gets out of the bath. I have to discover the parcel covered in a towel, make a few guesses and act surprised when it turns out to be a DD

DD1 (3.6) runs around to dry off after a bath, no towel, just in the buff

She always wants me to pretend to eat various different fruit when tucking her in. She offers me all sorts and instructs me that I have to chew them for ages because they're very chewy ones - I have no idea on that one.

DH & I are howling at the interpretive dance. I have actual tears down my cheeks.

Please let us know what tomorrow's dance looks like!

DH and DD have all manner of strange routines they share during bedtime routines or on the school run. I leave them to it, lol!

All these bath related ones reminded me that DD likes to stand up in the bath when she has finished. She stands absolutely still whilst I wrap the towel around her head and then I half-lift/half-drag her out. Then I point her in the direction of her room and she has to make her way there, head swathed in the towel. She used to ask me to tell her directions but last week I got distracted by DS and directed her into a door. Luckily her head was well protected.

DS also has a sulky tent in the kitchen (airer covered with a blanket). When he doesnt get his own way (quite a lot), he says 'going to tent' and stomps off. He sits in there in the dark with his legs in front of him, arms crossed, lips pursed emitting the occasional humph. If you stand by the tent and say 'where is DS' he will shout 'I in tent. I sad and cross. Go way.' No one else is allowed in the tent and its sole designated purpose is for DS to sulk dramatically. I would like a sulky tent.

Forgot to mention we absolutely have to ask where DS is. If we forget he will start shouting 'Mummy, where is DS. Where is DS. I sad.'

When we are in the car, my DCs 15 and 12, make me shout at people in a boad irish accent! along the lines of "FECKIN BEJEESUS! Did ye get yer FECKIN drivin license in a FECKIN LUCKY BAG??" They find it hugely amusing, even though I have to do it EVERY time we go anywhere!!

My DH used to wrap DD and DS in ludicrously tight towel-cocoons every night. He would then lie them down on the floor and command them to escape their cocoons. Cue much huffing and wriggling as they tried to free themselves from these improvised strait-jackets.

Not sure who it was who insisted on this happening, but it went on for years.

Oh how strange! My DD (4) also insists on being wrapped in a towel on the floor after her bath. DH has to 'sit' on her because she is a chair.